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In a blockbuster bout of reality-bending, Donald Trump insisted that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The stance doesn’t just contradict basic common sense, it also clashes with U.S. intelligence. Trump shared his controversial take right out in the open when he was pressed to […]

You know that horrible moment when you go to high-five someone and they leave you hanging? Or worse yet, when one of you goes for a high five but the other one goes for a formal handshake? Or if you’re President of the United States and you’re trying to act like a normal human being […]

If you’ve ever texted with a British person, or, indeed, you are a British person who texts, you’ll know that most exchanges end with an ‘x’, and usually have plenty of others sprinkled liberally throughout. Does it mean we’re naturally affectionate people, or is it the textual equivalent of apologising, something we do without really […]

Given that we spend approximately 90,000 hours at work over our lifetimes, it’s a good idea to choose one that you either enjoy, or that pays lots of money. The very lucky amongst us end up doing both, but those careers tend to be pretty rare. They’ve been chatting about unusual and well-remunerated employment on […]

Introducing Rob Moore, British multi-millionaire entrepreneur, property investor, author and public speaker. He’s also the host of the Disruptors Podcast, which features conversations with entrepreneurs, authors, investors and influencers. He uses his Twitter account, among other things, to rail against taxes and to give advice to people with lots of money. He’s also recently posted […]

When going out with family and friends we find it best not to bring up politics, or if you do then maybe try to do it as early as possible before anyone’s had too much to drink. But when it comes to relationships, well, while we’d rather not talk about it, it might be best […]

Matty Benedetto is like a modern Leonardo Da Vinci, if Leonardo had a gift for inventing stuff that nobody really needs. For instance, when everybody was in lockdown, he came up with the Zoom-ouflage Shirt. Matty, not Leonardo. If that’s no good for you, perhaps you might want a nice set of training wheels for […]

Unless we are nuclear physicists or Sir Stephen Fry, we tend to go through life thinking people have roughly the same amount of knowledge as us, so finding out that people are not aware of what we consider pretty basic facts can be slightly alarming. Over on the AskReddit page, user JustBeingElara has been pondering […]

Time to return – briefly – to the world of Twitter, where it turned out the very worst people can sometimes be a spark for the very best of things. It all began when ‘Alpha male’ type Richard Cooper – some kind of life coach dude, by the looks of it – took time out […]

Donald Trump got a chance to show off the White House’s relentlessly gold makeover to one of the people he was perhaps keen to impress the most – Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. The American president looked ecstatic to have him there, well he did until an ABC News reporter burst his bubble by […]